ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,422, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Product LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart cold plate for redundant liquid cooling loops" was invented by Yuan Chen (Shanghai), Weidong Zuo (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Regan Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and systems for cooling hardware components is disclosed. The smart cold plate (CP) device includes a first inlet port for supplying a first coolant path, a second inlet port for supplying a second coolant path, and a valve for selectively controlling a flow of a coolant between the first and second inlet ports and an internal port, the internal port connecting the first ...